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Post by fernwood on Mar 31, 2022 3:43:39 GMT -5
Very cool clam.
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Post by mohs on Apr 3, 2022 18:46:24 GMT -5
A interesting piece of granite I stumbled upon in the Salt  The chunk is about foot wide and 6 inches deep It that green band that had me wondering. It went all around the rock A strange anomaly how that forms in the crystallization process. This rock broke from some distant mountain and rolled interminably and ended up in the Salt River. Imagine there is some mountain, somewhere, where a lucky trained eye, could find this green banding . Kind of like the KT boundary anyway I thought it was unique enough to stash it for further inspection something to ponder,, mostly anyone else think its Not something to be taken for granite? |
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Post by quartzilla on Apr 3, 2022 22:56:35 GMT -5
Looks like epidote!
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Post by Son Of Beach on Apr 4, 2022 17:47:09 GMT -5
I'm with ya mohs , those straight lines get me. Seems like everything is chaotic in building and then something like that comes along and plays nice. I always assumed it was either sedimentary of some sort, maybe not sedimentary in the normal sense, but maybe X settling out Or maybe some microscopic culture growing along a seam. Seems like they always have their nose in something It certainly catches the eye |
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Post by Son Of Beach on Apr 4, 2022 17:49:15 GMT -5
I have to tumble the Granite Potato, right? 
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Post by jasoninsd on Apr 4, 2022 23:33:47 GMT -5
Any chance of some more pics of that blue one?!? Holy shnikees! |
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Post by liveoak on Apr 5, 2022 6:22:44 GMT -5
Now that's cool !! Looks like a fossil shell in the rock . Thanks for sharing . Patty
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Post by mohs on Apr 5, 2022 13:36:00 GMT -5
Yohs Chad ! Cool spud When you tumble it Be sure to do it in hot water Like our potato salad to 5.5 on the mohscale butte that another long story ‘ that was excellent suggestion that the green band may be algae/moss Maybe the rock sat in a water line And algae moss was eating away ? So I went out today to the stash to scratch the green band Best I can tell it solid all the way through that rock  O that picture also includes a piece of micro fine jasper That I busted open and used to scrtch the band I think it pretty cool--- unfortunately not great lapidary color Maybe a chert or flint... |
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Post by jasoninsd on Apr 5, 2022 16:18:40 GMT -5
jasoninsd Here's a few blues for you. The one you asked about is just a little pebble.    Thanks for posting these 'Dule! There's just something about the blue ones you find that to me is just breathtaking!! |
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Post by Son Of Beach on Apr 5, 2022 18:47:39 GMT -5
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Post by Son Of Beach on Apr 5, 2022 18:48:32 GMT -5
My face when I realized how cold the water was 
I had to look it up 37.8F. Think I jumped in for the first time when it was 43 last year....
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Post by mohs on Apr 6, 2022 16:10:52 GMT -5
Although I did noticed it wasn’t rounded thought my green banded granite tumbled a long time in the Salt .  Actually the granite came right from the Piedmont floor of the Salt. This is the first time I found this out crop Huge caps of greenish granitic boulders tops exposed from excavated bottom of the Salt River This raises all kinds if question. Butte who, knohs? May be I will find the green seam…. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 6, 2022 20:58:39 GMT -5
amygdule - Itty bitty carnelian! Good things come in small packages! Tumble the entire thing! Dule, did the large waves/high tides scramble things up a bit? Love the golden orb carnelians, and also the colorful pottery! Liked the blue agate, too. Need to get down to the beach and do some beach combing, no carnelians here that I have seen, though. Went to Coronado today, but didn't get closer than a half mile to the beach. (Bob doctor appointment.) It was foggy down there! Clean bill of health from surgeon that removed invasive melanoma a week ago yesterday. Pathology results came back clean, doctor says he does not need to see him again, and no need to see oncologist. Yay!
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Post by jasoninsd on Apr 6, 2022 21:00:28 GMT -5
amygdule - Itty bitty carnelian! Good things come in small packages! Tumble the entire thing! Dule, did the large waves/high tides scramble things up a bit? Love the golden orb carnelians, and also the colorful pottery! Liked the blue agate, too. Need to get down to the beach and do some beach combing, no carnelians here that I have seen, though. Went to Coronado today, but didn't get closer than a half mile to the beach. (Bob doctor appointment.) It was foggy down there! Clean bill of health from surgeon that removed invasive melanoma a week ago yesterday. Pathology results came back clean, doctor says he does not need to see him again, and no need to see oncologist. Yay! That's really awesome news Jean!!  |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 6, 2022 21:03:50 GMT -5
Thanks, Jason jasoninsd. We were optimistic, but the doctor's word today made it official! |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 6, 2022 21:39:51 GMT -5
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Post by quartzilla on Apr 6, 2022 21:59:55 GMT -5
For some reason this handful reminds me of Nightmare Before Christmas  |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 6, 2022 22:01:47 GMT -5
Bones and skulls, lol.
I concur.
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Post by stardiamond on Apr 7, 2022 10:19:32 GMT -5
One pound piece of Tahoma on ebay.  |
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Post by Son Of Beach on Apr 7, 2022 11:13:18 GMT -5
 #nervoustwitch |
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